Application of association–analysis to distribution studies of Recent Foraminifera

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Vilks, G., Anthony, E. H., Williams, W. T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1970
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; King Island; East Bay; Foraminifera*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e70-139; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e70-139

Counts of species of foraminifera from 75 samples of sediment from East Bay, MacKeazie King Island, in the Canadian Arctic were converted to a matrix of presence–absence data (56 species × 75 stations). These were submitted to both normal and inverse association–analysis as a preliminary test of the...